Background
Modern automobile engines use paper core air filters more and more commonly, and during maintenance, dust and dirt attached to the surfaces of the paper filter cores can be removed only by using a vibration method, a soft brush method (brushing along corrugations of the paper filter cores) or a compressed air back blowing method.
The most common compressed air back-blowing scheme is that after the filter element is disassembled, the filter element is firstly lightly knocked and then back-blown inside the filter element by utilizing compressed air of an air compressor or a vehicle, so that the effect of cleaning and ventilating the outer surface of the filter element is achieved. The paper filter element is always weak in order to ensure the air permeability, the paper filter element can be damaged carelessly, compressed air is used for back blowing to waste energy, secondary dust pollution to the surrounding environment is caused, the environment is not protected, and if filter paper of the filter element is damaged, the filter paper needs to be directly replaced, so that great waste is caused; even if the paper filter element is maintained, the original performance of the paper filter element cannot be completely recovered, and the air inlet resistance of the paper filter element is gradually increased along with the service time, so that the paper filter element is replaced by a new filter element when the paper filter element needs to be maintained for the 4 th time. If the paper filter element has the problems of cracking, perforation or degumming between the filter paper and the end cover, etc., the paper filter element should be replaced immediately.
The desert air filter is a two-stage dry type air filter consisting of a multi-cyclone tube type coarse filter and a paper filter element, has the advantages of being particularly suitable for working in rainy and snowy weather due to the fact that the length of an airflow channel is increased, and has the defects of large air inlet resistance and large overall dimension, the working rotating speed of a motor vehicle engine is 500 plus 2000 revolutions, the change of air demand is large due to an overlarge rotating speed range, the adaptability of the filtering efficiency of the cyclone tube cannot be met, low efficiency and large dimension are caused, and the maintenance of the filter element cannot be effectively improved.
The filter is added at the top of the high-level air inlet channel: in the running process of a commercial vehicle, due to the rotation of wheels and the air draft effect of an engine cooling fan, dust at the bottom of the vehicle is large, particularly dust emission phenomenon is serious on low-grade roads and construction sites, so that a high-position air inlet channel is generally adopted for reducing the load of an air filter and entering large-particle dust, the high-position air inlet channel is usually positioned at the top of a cab or the rear side of the cab, and a multi-cyclone tube type filter is additionally arranged at the top of the air inlet channel. However, the mode has large air inlet resistance, large overall dimension and low efficiency and cannot meet the requirements of customers in areas with serious dust.
The design of the air circuit of the motor vehicle meets the requirement of GB7258, when a plurality of air filters with the back flushing function are additionally arranged on the market, only a vehicle-mounted high-pressure air circuit back flushing filter element is considered and utilized, the influence on the air circuit of the whole vehicle after the air filters are additionally arranged is not considered, when the whole vehicle is started and runs emergently, the running is influenced due to the fact that the additionally arranged air storage cylinder is inflated, the emergency running is delayed, the phenomenon that the whole vehicle does not meet the national standard is caused, and the potential safety hazard of running and braking is caused.
No matter which filter blowback structure of above several kinds of forms uses, trouble, maintenance cost and cost also corresponding increase, utilize the waste energy of the mode that former car compressed air comes the air cleaner when maintaining. Even have automatic dust removal effect, the integrated level is too poor, and automatic dust blowing effect is not good, increases later stage running cost and cost of maintenance moreover, to the air intake resistance of original vehicle or equipment, key equipment such as engine still have the hidden danger that causes the influence of admitting air, reduces engine power and effectively exerts. And once an emergency occurs, the driving and braking safety is caused to be in a problem, and safety accidents of drivers, pedestrians and motor vehicles can be influenced. Adverse effects occur.
Disclosure of Invention
One or more embodiments provide the following technical solutions:
the backpack air filter comprises an air storage cylinder and a shell which are arranged in parallel, is positioned at the top of a high-level air inlet passage of a motor vehicle and replaces an original coarse filter; the top of the shell is provided with an air inlet, and the bottom of the shell is provided with an air outlet; a filter element is arranged in the middle of the shell, and the space outside the filter element is communicated with the air inlet and forms an air inlet chamber with the shell; the space inside the filter element is communicated with the air outlet and forms a clean air chamber with the shell; a back-blowing nozzle is arranged in the inner space of the filter element; the bottom of the air inlet chamber is provided with a dust exhaust port.
The back-blowing nozzle is connected with the electromagnetic valve through an air pipe, and the electromagnetic valve is controlled by the controller to open or close so as to control the back-blowing nozzle to spray high-pressure air.
The air cylinder is arranged in parallel with the shell and is connected with the electromagnetic valve through an air pipe, and the power of back flushing comes from high-pressure gas pre-filled in the air cylinder.
The middle part of the air storage cylinder is provided with an air inlet pipe, the air inlet pipe is sequentially connected with an air inlet electromagnetic valve and an air pressure sensor, and when the air pressure sensor monitors that the air inlet pressure of a high-pressure air source is in a set value, the air inlet electromagnetic valve is controlled to be opened, so that the air storage cylinder is filled with high-pressure air.
The bottom of the air storage cylinder is provided with a drain valve, the drain valve is opened, and water stored in the air storage cylinder is discharged.
The dust exhaust port is obliquely arranged and connected with a dust exhaust valve.
The air inlet covers the rain hat.
The number of the back flushing nozzles corresponds to the number of the filter elements one to one.
The controller internally comprises module circuit functions of power supply control, output, input, CPU, logic control and the like.
A method of operating a backpack air cleaner, the controller configured to:
when the engine is closed every time, the controller controls the electromagnetic valve to be conducted according to a set working condition, and high-pressure air is blown out from the back-blowing nozzle through the electromagnetic valve and the connecting air pipe to carry out back-blowing on the filter element;
the controller collects the air pressure signal of the air passage of the whole vehicle through the air pressure sensor, and closes the air inlet electromagnetic valve when the pressure of the air passage of the whole vehicle is lower than a starting air pressure value; when the pressure of the whole vehicle air path is higher than the starting air pressure value by 4 within a certain range, the air inlet electromagnetic valve is opened to charge the air storage cylinder of the back flushing system.
The air pressure sensor selects a switch type sensor or a non-switch type sensor; the switch type sensor is set to have the pressure of A-A +0.55MPa, and A is starting air pressure; the non-switching sensor sets the pressure to a set value.
The above one or more technical solutions have the following beneficial effects:
1. the controller automatically detects the working condition of the engine, keeps back-blowing the particle impurities in the air filtered by the filter element of the filter when the engine is closed every time, does not need manual operation and intervention, and an operator or a driver does not need to frequently maintain the filter element and does not start the dust removal device at any time.
2. The filter assembly at the top of the high-level air inlet channel is replaced, the back flushing action period of the back flushing sprayer is adjusted, the filtering effect is adjusted at will between 10% and 99.8%, the load of the coarse filter can be reduced after replacement, the introduction of the dust exhaust valve enables collected dust and particles to be controllable, secondary pollution to the environment is avoided, and the dust removal effect is improved. And when the automobile is additionally installed, the structure of the original automobile does not need to be adjusted.
3. The controller collects the air pressure signal of the air passage of the whole vehicle through the air pressure sensor and judges, when the pressure of the air passage of the whole vehicle is lower than a starting air pressure value, the air inlet control electromagnetic valve is closed, and only when the pressure of the air passage of the whole vehicle is higher than the starting air pressure value within a certain range, the air cylinder of the back flushing system is inflated, so that the safe running of the whole vehicle can not be influenced by the inflation of the air cylinder in the back flushing function.
Detailed Description
The following detailed description is exemplary and is intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed. Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs.
As described in the background art, when the air filter is additionally provided with the blowback function using the original high-pressure air path of the whole vehicle, the relative positions of the filter element and the blowback device need to be considered, and the influence of the high-pressure air used by the blowback device on the original air path of the whole vehicle needs to be considered.
In the running process of the motor vehicle, the engine needs to suck air to burn fuel, and the sucked air needs to be filtered, so that the working state of the engine is ensured, and in the running process of the motor vehicle, because of the rotation of wheels and the air draft effect of a cooling fan of the engine, the dust at the bottom of the vehicle is larger, and particularly, the dust raising phenomenon is more serious on low-grade roads and construction sites, so that a high-level air inlet channel is generally adopted for reducing the load of an air filter and the entering of large-particle dust, and the high-level air inlet channel is generally positioned near a cab with a higher relative position of the whole vehicle.
For example: the heavy truck is provided with the cyclone tube coarse filter behind a cab, the coarse filter is arranged at the top of a high-level air inlet channel, the position is located at the whole relatively higher position, the total amount of dust entering the air inlet channel is relatively less, and an engine can be better protected; the swirl tube strainer is selected to further reduce the damage of dust to the engine by increasing the length of the airflow path as described in the background of the invention.
Regarding cyclone tube strainers: the working process of the cyclone tube comprises three parts: firstly, the tangential input of the gas containing dust produces a rotational movement, secondly, the spatial regularity of the materials to be separated is completed in the rotational movement, and finally, the separation is completed through the special structural design. The gas and dust mixture, after flowing tangentially into the inlet section from the inlet, is caused to rotate at a high speed. Because the density of the light and heavy components in the mixture is different, under the action of centrifugal force, the dust of the heavy components moves along the rotary wall surface of the cyclone, is concentrated near the wall surface, gradually moves towards the underflow outlet in the rotating process, and is finally discharged out of the cyclone. Meanwhile, the light components move towards the central shaft of the cyclone to form a central core, flow towards the inlet and are discharged from the overflow port, so that the separation of the light components and the heavy components is realized.
Current motor vehicle, at high-order intake duct top installation cyclone tube strainer, the air gets into the cyclone tube from the intake duct air inlet, and through the colating of cyclone tube, most dust is filtered out because centrifugal action, and separated dust is leading-in to the ash storage dish through the taper pipe in, and gas after the filtration is further filtered (fine filtration) behind the cyclone tube inner tube entering main filter core. Because the ash storage disc is isolated from the coarse filter and the pipeline is conical, even if dust is lifted, only a small part of the dust enters the main filter element, the filter element has low load and long service period and service life.
The cyclone tube coarse filter has the characteristic of separating dust by utilizing rotating airflow, and the length of the air inlet channel is longer, so that the air inlet resistance is large, and the corresponding overall dimension is large. And the swirl tube must be the rotational air flow, must the inlet air velocity reach design speed and just can reach corresponding effect. In the practical use aspect that the idling speed is about 500-2500 rpm in the working area of the motor vehicle engine and the driving speed is 5-120km/h, the change of the air suction amount is very large, so that the coarse filter cannot achieve the designed dust removal effect.
Example 1:
as shown in figure 1, the backpack air cleaner comprises an air storage cylinder 9 and a shell 2 which are positioned at the top of a high-position air inlet of a motor vehicle and are arranged in parallel, and the original cyclone tube coarse filter is replaced; the top of the shell 2 is provided with an air inlet 1, and the air inlet 1 covers a rain hat 15; the bottom of the shell 2 is provided with an air outlet 6; the middle part of the shell 2 is provided with a filter element 3, the space outside the filter element 3 and the shell 2 form an air inlet chamber 4, the space inside the filter element 3 and the shell 2 form a clean air chamber 7, and the chamber is communicated with an air outlet 6; the bottom of the air inlet chamber 4 is provided with a dust discharging port which is obliquely arranged and is connected with a dust discharging valve 5.
The back flushing sprayer 3 is arranged in the inner space of the filter element 3, the back flushing sprayer 3 is connected with the electromagnetic valve 12 through the connecting air pipe and the connector 11, the electromagnetic valve 12 is controlled by the controller 14 to be opened or closed, the back flushing sprayer 3 is controlled to spray high-pressure air, dust is blown out to the outside from the inside of the filter element 3, and back flushing is achieved. The dust blown back falls into the dust exhaust valve 5 through the obliquely arranged dust exhaust port, and the dust exhaust valve 5 is periodically opened to clean the accumulated dust in the air inlet chamber 4.
The number of the back-blowing nozzles 13 corresponds to the number of the filter elements 3 one by one, and depends on the discharge capacity of the filter.
For example, fig. 1 shows a filter with small displacement, and at this time, the filter uses a single filter element 3, and then the blowback nozzles 13 form a group;
for example, fig. 2 shows a large-displacement filter, the number of filter elements 3 selected for use in the filter at this time is at least two, the selected blowback nozzles 13 correspond to the number of filter elements 3, and are also at least two, in the positional relationship, each group of blowback nozzles 13 is located inside the corresponding filter element 3, so as to ensure that the high-pressure gas blown out by the blowback nozzles 13 can blow out the dust accumulated on the surface of the filter element 3 from the inside of the filter element 3 to the outer space of the filter element 3, that is, into the air inlet chamber 4, and the dust is collected to the dust exhaust valve 5 under the action of gravity and the obliquely arranged dust exhaust port.
The air cylinder 9 is arranged in parallel with the shell 2, the air cylinder 9 is connected with the electromagnetic valve 12 through an air pipe, and the power of back flushing comes from high-pressure gas pre-filled in the air cylinder 9.
The middle part of the air storage cylinder 9 is provided with a high-pressure air inlet pipe 10, the high-pressure air inlet pipe 10 is sequentially connected with an air inlet electromagnetic valve 16 and an air pressure sensor 17, and when the air pressure sensor 17 monitors that the air inlet pressure of a high-pressure air source is in a set value, the air inlet electromagnetic valve 16 is controlled to be opened, so that the air storage cylinder 9 is filled with high-pressure air.
The output signal of the air pressure sensor 17 enters the controller 14; two wires output by the controller 14 are connected to the electromagnetic valve 12 which performs the back-blowing function and controls the electromagnetic valve to be switched on and off; the two wires from the output of the controller 14 are also connected to an intake solenoid valve 16. The controller 14 is connected with the motor vehicle through a wire harness, and the controller 14 internally comprises module circuit functions of power supply control, output, input, CPU, logic control and the like.
The bottom of the air cylinder 9 is provided with a drain valve 8, and the drain valve 8 is opened periodically to discharge water accumulated in the air cylinder 9.
When the engine is turned off each time, the controller 14 controls the electromagnetic valve 12 to be conducted according to a set working condition, and high-pressure air passes through the electromagnetic valve 12 and the connecting air pipe 11 to perform back blowing on the filter element 3 from the back blowing nozzle 13.
The controller 14 collects an air pressure signal of an air passage of the whole vehicle through the air pressure sensor 17 and judges the air pressure signal, when the pressure of the air passage of the whole vehicle is lower than a starting air pressure value, the air inlet electromagnetic valve 16 is closed, and only when the pressure is higher than the starting air pressure value within a certain range, the air storage cylinder 9 of the back blowing system is inflated, so that the safe running of the whole vehicle is not influenced in the inflating process of the air storage cylinder 9.
The backpack air cleaner of above-mentioned structure is located motor vehicle high-order intake duct top, replace current cyclone tube strainer, owing to introduced the dust exhaust mouth that blowback function and slope set up, make the filter core need not demolish and can carry out maintenance work, under the prerequisite that does not change the filter core material, can rely on the action cycle of adjusting the blowback shower nozzle, make the filter effect adjust at will between 10% -99.8%, and can reduce the load of strainer after the replacement, the introduction of the dust exhaust mouth that the slope set up and supporting dust exhaust valve makes the dust and the granule of collecting become controllable, no longer secondary pollution environment, thereby improve dust removal effect. And when the whole vehicle is modified and installed, the structure of the original vehicle does not need to be adjusted.
Example 2:
the high-pressure air source of air filter blowback function comes from whole car original gas circuit, therefore the blowback function can not influence the performance of whole car at the inflatable in-process, because whole car adopts the gas circuit braking, when whole car starts and promptly drives a vehicle, if appear because of aerifing the air receiver of installing additional and influence the driving, the urgent driving delay appears, then can lead to dangerous the emergence.
The gas circuit design of the motor vehicle is required to meet the requirement of GB7258, in the motor vehicle adopting air pressure brake in the standard, the indicated air pressure of an air pressure gauge is required to be increased to starting air pressure from zero within 4min (6 min for an automobile train and 8min for an articulated passenger car and an articulated trackless trolley car) under the condition that the engine is at 75 percent of rated rotating speed.
With regard to air path braking, when a motor vehicle starts under the condition of insufficient air pressure and needs braking, the braking force is insufficient due to insufficient air pressure, so that the vehicle cannot brake, which is a dangerous condition. Most of the conventional large trucks adopt an air-break braking mode for braking, and if the starting air pressure is insufficient, the brake pad returns to the original 'braking' state, so that the large trucks cannot start; if the air pressure is insufficient during running, the brake fails, which is a potential hazard of major accidents.
Method of operating a backpack air cleaner, the controller 14 is configured to:
when the engine is closed every time, the controller 17 controls the electromagnetic valve 12 to be conducted according to a set working condition, and high-pressure air is blown out from the back-blowing nozzle through the electromagnetic valve 12 and the connecting air pipe 11 to carry out back-blowing on the filter element;
the controller 14 collects the air pressure signal of the air passage of the whole vehicle through the air pressure sensor 17, and closes the air inlet electromagnetic valve 16 when the pressure of the air passage of the whole vehicle is lower than a starting air pressure value A; when the pressure of the whole vehicle air path is higher than the starting air pressure value 4 within a certain range, the air inlet electromagnetic valve 16 is opened to charge the air storage cylinder 9 of the back flushing system.
The air pressure sensor 17 is a switch type sensor or a non-switch type sensor; the switch type sensor is set to have the pressure of A-A +0.55MPa, and A is starting air pressure; the non-switching type sensor sets the pressure to a certain set value.
A. The switch-type sensor sets the pressure between the starting air pressure and the starting air pressure +0.55MPa, for example: the starting air pressure of a vehicle of a certain model is marked to be 0.65MPa, and then the switch value can be set to be a certain set value between 0.65MPa and 1.15 MPa. If the pressure is 0.7MPa (experimental set value or agreement value), the sensor switch gives a conducting or breaking circuit signal when the pressure is higher than the set value of 0.7MPa, the controller 14 cuts off the air inlet electromagnetic valve 16 at ordinary times, and the air path of the whole vehicle cannot charge the blowback air storage cylinder 9. When the circuit signal sent by the sensor 17 is detected, the controller 14 controls the air inlet electromagnetic valve 16 to be conducted to charge the air storage cylinder 9.
B. The non-switching type sensor (for example, a resistance strain type pressure sensor, a piezoresistive type pressure sensor, a piezoelectric type pressure sensor, an inductive type pressure sensor, and the like) sets the pressure to a certain set value, for example, 0.7MPa (experimental set value or protocol value), when the air pressure is higher than the set value of 0.7MPa, the sensor 17 gives a set circuit signal (resistance, voltage, inductance, and the like), the controller 14 cuts off the air inlet electromagnetic valve 16 at ordinary times, and the whole vehicle air path does not inflate the blowback air cylinder 9. When a circuit signal sent by the sensor 17 is detected, the controller controls the air inlet electromagnetic valve 16 to be conducted to charge the air cylinder 9.
The blowback gas cylinder 9 must be supplemented with gas under the condition of meeting the driving requirements: because the blowback action has been accomplished when stopping, the air receiver 9 of this moment in do not have the air, if when the engine starts, appear because conflagration, chemical gas leak, when special conditions such as the road is required to drive promptly to urgent, because all gas all inflated for blowback air receiver 9, this can lead to unable completion urgent driving, lead to the emergence of major accident, install the blowback system additional like and will appear accident potential. Therefore, the blowback gas cylinder 9 must be replenished with gas under the condition that the driving requirement is satisfied.
In the figure: 1-an air inlet; 2-air filter housing; 3-a filter element; 4-an air inlet chamber; 5-a dust exhaust valve; 6-air outlet; 7-clean air chamber; 8-a drain valve; 9-an air cylinder; 10-high pressure air inlet pipe; 11-connecting the gas pipe and the joint; 12-a solenoid valve; 13-blowback spray head; 14-a controller; 15-rain hat; 16-an air inlet electromagnetic valve; 17-barometric sensor
Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made without inventive efforts by those skilled in the art based on the technical solution of the present invention.